The hook for Darcy James Argue's Secret Society — who come to the Regattabar Thursday the 25th — is that they're a "steampunk big band." Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the Bert Seager Trio By JON GARELICK | February 12, 2010

If great art and great artists are supposed to contain multitudes, then in music, at least, pianists have the edge: 10 fingers theoretically capable of 10 different simultaneous paths for the music to take. Of course, it's not that simple. Nando Michelin and Matt Steckler know who they are By JON GARELICK | January 29, 2010

Film noir has been a running theme in composer/pianist Ran Blake's work since the beginning of his career — his very first album, The Newest Sound Around (RCA, 1962), with singer Jeanne Lee, began with David Raskin's theme to Otto Preminger's Laura . Ran Blake's Pawnbroker, Sofia Koutsovitis's pan-American roots By JON GARELICK | November 20, 2009

Yes, this Boston jazz trio incorporates the sounds of seals, tree frogs, and crickets. Yes, one of them is a working ecologist. Here's why you shouldn't hold that against them. Earthsound is for real By JON GARELICK | September 25, 2009

Yes, this Boston jazz trio incorporates the sounds of seals, tree frogs, and crickets. Yes, one of them is a working ecologist. Here's why you shouldn't hold that against them. Earthsound is for real By JON GARELICK | September 25, 2009